[온라인 기획전시] The Best Science Images of 2020

Asteroids, microbes, and, of course, coronavirus: These photographs capture a year in which science has been championed—and challenged—in unprecedented ways.

It has been a busy year of research aboard the International Space Station. In November, we celebrated the 20th year of continuous human presence aboard the space station, which so far has hosted 242 people and more than 3,000 science experiments. During the past year, research has ranged from growing radishes in microgravity to capturing 360-degree footage of life aboard station to monitoring our planet. The crew aboard station increased to a record number of seven concurrent long-duration crew members thanks to the Commercial Crew Program. This increase creates more time for conducting research which benefits people on Earth while helping prepare us to explore farther into space.

Look at some of the breakthrough investigations crew members worked on in 2020.

Want to see more space station pictures? Check out our science photo highlights from 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019.